Short story: The urge, of the itch

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Horace Argyle always strongly felt an urge to have another cigarette. It was like the urge was an itch in his mind that only smoking another cigarette could relieve. Horace wanted to know what causes such an itch, which urges us to succumb to its wants, and so itch it, with a bad habit, such as smoking, undoubtedly was. He went along to see a psychotherapist, to ask him about how he could overcome such a compulsion. The renowned doctor, Eric (EE) Ericstine, told him to do this. "The urge for the itch to be itched comes from a feeling of wanting, wanting to be felt, which then causes the itch in your mind, as an urge that builds, and builds, until you give into it." "Get rid of the feeding feeling, and the itch will go too, along with its attached urge." "Move into your heart, and do something with love, and the other feeling will be replaced." "A prayer will help you to so move there, into your heart, my man," he said. "Love trumps all other feelings, with itself, every time." "On the other hand, there is nothing wrong with some urges, that are within us." "We have an inbuilt yearning placed within our hearts, with which, we can satisfy the itches within us looking for truth, meaning, and God." "This yearning is a genuine one, if we remain in its humility side, and feel it coming to us from our hearts of love, but when we connect the yearning, through our minds, to our ego instead, we develop wants for all that is in the world, including a greed for truth too." "We then become huffers and puffers, ego inflated to the extreme, instead of remaining humble vessels of love." "Love never itches, but soothes all itches, and yet it also urges you to embrace itself with itself in you." "Love is always pleasantly felt, and any urgent itch, or compulsive urge, does not ever come to you from love." "Now, you might say that smoking gives you pleasure, but the fact that you are here asking me for help to overcome its addiction in you, shows you plainly that this is a false pleasure, more a lusting after some type of a feeling instead, not real joy, as comes to you from love." "Ok, I have scheduled you in for another session, next week." "Please try to remember to pray every time that an urge to smoke comes into you." "This method will indeed work, my friend. It is after all the same method that I also used to overcome my own smoking problem, and I have not touched a cigarette now, for well over thirty years. I was a heavy two pack a day man too." Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com The smoking addiction can be overcome with prayer, and love.